Apple Releases macOS Sonoma 14.6 With Security Updates

Apple today released macOS Sonoma 14.6, the sixth update to the macOS Sonoma operating system that launched last year. macOS Sonoma 14.6 comes a little over two months after the release of macOS Sonoma 14.5.

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The ‌‌‌‌‌macOS Sonoma‌‌‌ 14.6 update can be downloaded for free on all eligible Macs using the Software Update section of System Settings.

macOS Sonoma 14.6 includes bug fixes and security improvements, and it is recommended for all Macs that run the macOS Sonoma operating system. There are no new features or changes in macOS Sonoma aside from the under-the-hood updates.

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Top Rated Comments

vagos Avatar
10 months ago

There are no new features or changes in macOS Sonoma aside from the under-the-hood updates.
Exactly what I was hoping for. MacOS needs a year of this approach. No crappy new features. More stability and polishing!
Score: 30 Votes (Like | Disagree)
avkills Avatar
10 months ago
Have not even downloaded and installed yet, but everything feels snappier. ??
Score: 29 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Jordan Klein Avatar
10 months ago

Exactly what I was hoping for. MacOS needs a year of this approach. No crappy new features. More stability and polishing!
Better yet, how about zero new features for the next 5-10 years. During that time, work on nothing but stability issues, completing all the things that are half done or done half-assed. Make the current system a pleasure to use in every way imaginable, which is more or less how it's marketed.
Score: 25 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Unity451 Avatar
10 months ago
Hopefully this update is not brought to us by CrowdStrike.
Score: 24 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Edgecrusherr Avatar
10 months ago
[ICODE]This update adds support for using up to two external displays when the laptop lid is closed on 14-inch MacBook Pro with M3 chip and also provides important bug fixes and security updates.[/ICODE]

Remember when Apple respected their user base enough to make detailed change logs? I know of many hodgepodge collaborations on Github that do a better job documenting their work for their users.
Score: 16 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Edgecrusherr Avatar
10 months ago

Better yet, how about zero new features for the next 5-10 years. During that time, work on nothing but stability issues, completing all the things that are half done or done half-assed. Make the current system a pleasure to use in every way imaginable, which is more or less how it's marketed.
I respect where you're coming from, but I would gladly take 1-2 years of clean up, then go back to the tick-tock system, one year of features, next year of stability fixes and clean up, then repeat. Business and critical machines can only update every other year, on the more stable release, while everyone else can update every year.

Though, marketing and the money people are running the company now. Everyone who knows what they're doing seem to have little power these days.
Score: 15 Votes (Like | Disagree)